Cheri Kay in Haiti....where my life became meaningful.

Today was one of those days.  When going through an adoption there are so many emotions.  Sometimes, many emotions in one day!  The day started with such amazing friends and family support.  I am so very grateful for this.  I had tears of joy due to the amazing love and support that I have found in all of my friends and family.  If it weren't for that, well, I'd be a puddle of a mess right now. Remember I told you that I needed to trust.  Well, we are in a test right now!  I just got an email and subsequent phone conversations that it appears that something has happened to an ENTIRE package of documents needed to process the adoption.  I don't know what happened to it.  No worries, it can all be re-done, fixed, etc, but 2 weeks have been wasted.  Everyone was waiting on everyone and now, the package seems to be missing. Right now, I am grieving those 2 weeks. I am trying not to focus on how we just lost 2 weeks with our baby that my arms are aching to hold, but to turn my

Busy Week with no new updates on the adoption.  Of course, I don't expect updates every week.  It's a paper wait!  I get that.  I have been through this once before.  I have submitted everything required of me and now it's waiting on paperwork.  And so, we hope and pray that things are moving and until then....we'll hug our little one through prayers! And to make it a little easier.....we'll enjoy the Spartans in the NCAA tournament!  GO STATE!!!!!! http://www.gofundme.com/fromhaititochina https://justlovecoffee.com/about/beneficiary/spartansforhaiti/

Good Morning!  It's my FAVORITE day of the year!!!  Today is March 12!  Why is that day so important?  Well, 6 years ago today, I boarded a plane and brought my two Haitian Angels to the U.S.A!  This was a day that I had DREAMED about for 4.5 years.  I had sorta begun to think that it was never going to happen.  I had sorta given up, but you know what.....God never gives up!  That is why this day means so much to me.  I remember the feeling of walking into the airport with my babies and all of our luggage and our PILE of paperwork.  I remember how perfectly well behaved they were.  I remember feeling sad.  Sad to be leaving the country that had become my home for 3 years.  Sad to leave the friends that had become my family.  Sad to leave the culture that I had come to love.  Sad to leave the food, the heat, the smells of home. I was embarking on a whole new journey of parenthood.  I was scared that I wouldn't know how to be a mom in the States.  Even though I had grow

Thank you EVERYONE for all of your wonderful ideas for fundraising!  I am so thankful for all of your input!  I am lucky to have such wonderful friends and supports! I did make a decision to start a GoFundMe Campaign.  I had many trustworthy friends tell me to try it, so I made the leap! Here is the link to our page! http://www.gofundme.com/fromhaititochina Please feel free to share with everyone you know!  I am hoping to give a bit of an update next week on where things are in the process. Here is a bit of the story as it stands with this current adoption.  I have known even before bringing Ecrissa and Jaryse home that our little family was not finished.  My kids are so amazing and they fulfill me in ways that I never knew parenting would!  I just knew that they had more siblings.  I didn't know who, what, when, where and for goodness sakes even WHY!  LOL! So, I have been trying to keep my mind open about when to adopt again.  Over the years there have been moments that I

One of the many lessons I learned through my first adoption process is to TRUST GOD!  Wow, that one is a tough one!!!!  I have to trust on so many levels.   Trust that He is calling me to do this crazy thing called adoption Trust that I am even near good enough to parent these precious kids Trust that HIS timing is best Trust that He will provide Trust.... Trust.... Trust..... This time around I feel that I am doing better!  I have so much more peace with all of my decisions.  When I do start to feel anxious, I am quicker to stop and talk to Him, rather than frantically try to 'fix' the situation that is making me anxious.   I mean, He made this crazy crew a family and if He wants to add to it, I'm pretty sure He knows how to do that too!!!! Finances are a source of anxiety for me on a daily basis!  I work hard to provide as much as I can for the kids.  There are things that we don't have, but that is ok.  It's actually good.  I don

I wonder about the blog Title.  I am not sure what to do.  So, I started this blog originally to be able to share with friends and family how things were going with us while we were in Haiti.  I lived in Haiti for 3 years while waiting for the adoption of Jaryse and Ecrissa to complete.  Wow!  There were some intense life lessons during those three years.  Those days were the hardest, most fulfilling, happiest, most dreadful, most amazing, worst and best days of my life!  Once we made it to the States, I continued to blog about adjusting to life in the USA and to keep my friends (who became my family) in Haiti up to date with how we were doing.  Then, after a while, I felt that Facebook was really doing the job and I didn't necessarily need to do the blog and Facebook as I was saying the same things on both.  Well, there are about to be some changes in our lives and I think I'm ready to blog about it!  I am sure that this will be another big "life lesson" sort of seas